Commonwealth v. Davis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• during valid Terry patdown, officer properly seized object from defendant’s jacket pocket that he immediately recognized was a gun
• A frisk for weapons “is a type of investigative detention requiring reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot and that the individual whose suspicious behavior he is investigating at close range is armed and presently dangerous to the officer or to others”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Caple
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Dix
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-01· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. MacKey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-20· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Thran
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-02· cited 25×
• Com. v. Powell, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-03· cited 10×
• Com. v. Davis, N.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-14
• Com. v. Cunningham, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-12-13
• Com. v. Miller, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-03-14
• Com. v. Toliver, I.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-27

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• In the Interest of L.J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 659×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-27· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-20· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-22· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. James
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-29· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Scarborough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-07· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Whitlock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-03· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Maxon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-07· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Guess
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-13· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Fell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-07· cited 20×